Pannon Launches Hungarian 3G Network

Less than a year since the company was awarded its 3G license, Hungary's Pannon GSM has launched its commercial 3G network. Video calls will continue to be free until the end of this year as a continuation of the existing testing phase.

Ove Fredheim, Pannon's CEO stressed that the highly competitive pricing of video calls is aimed to encourage more and more customers to try video telephony, 3G-s unique feature, while Pannon GSM is also dedicated to the development of other mobile broadband services. "More than a hundred thousand Pannon GSM subscribers are equipped with EDGE-capable handsets, and ours is Hungary's widest mobile broadband network, which is available for more than half of the Hungarian population" - said the CEO. "Our constantly expanding content portfolio, favourable internet opportunities, our integrated mobile office solutions all serve the same goal: that more and more people use mobile broadband" - he added.

Pannon GSM' 3G network is available in the central districts of Budapest, by the end of the year most of the capital will be covered. The expansion of the full mobile broadband network is going on as well, coverage already reaches 50% of the population. Pannon GSM will soon start testing HSDPA, the ultra-high speed 3G technology, in its network."

Posted to the site on 12th October 2005